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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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Fast Track to the Future: AI Plant Modernization Tools

Leo Vieira
Smart Manufacturing Director
Stefanini Group
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Table Talk
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From AI Pilot to Plant Floor: Making Manufacturing AI Deliver Real Business Value

Matt Guner
Bobrick Washroom Equipment
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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From Smart City to Cognitive Community: Building the AI-Powered Digital Twin

John Rohrer
President of Enterprise AI & Technology Services
AMSYS
Nicole Coughlin
Chief Information & AI Officer
Town of Cary
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Table Talk
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Problem First, AI Second: A Practical Approach to Manufacturing Innovation

Scott Duncan
Lead AI & Decarbonization Engineer
Solstice Advanced Materials
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Networking Break
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Networking Break & 1:1 Meeting Program

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilitites
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A Practical Roadmap from Data Readiness to Measurable ROI

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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Networking Break
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Networking Break & 1:1 Meeting Program

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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AI Manufacturing
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From Alert to Answer: How Tormach Used AI to Solve the Knowledge Gap in Technical Support

Brian Kaufman
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Strudel
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Exhibitor & Sponsor Set-Up

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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AI Manufacturing
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Crowdsourcing Industrial AI at National Scale: Lessons from DataRace

Ulfan Aliyev
Chief Commercial Officer
National Artificial Intelligence Center of the Republic of Azerbaijan
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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AI, Baseball, and You: A Winning Strategy for Industrial Agentic Engineering

Aaron Blinka
Principal Software Engineer and Product Security Leader
HMH
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Keynote
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Measuring What Matters: Where AI and Digital Investment Deliver Real Manufacturing Impact

Vignesh Mani
Consulting Partner
ERA Group
Kaushik Datta
Manager, Innovation and Emerging Technology
Mercedes-Benz USA
Nashay Naeve
President, Global Manufacturing Operations
Industrial / Manufacturing Companies
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Networking Break
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Networking Break & 1:1 Meeting Program

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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Networking Break
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Executives Breakfast Reception

Breakfast Sponsored by:
NAIC National Artificial Intelligence Center
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Industrial AI 101
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Getting Started with Enterprise AI: A No-Nonsense Guide for Manufacturers

Michael Luttenberger
Field CTO
Netrix Global
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Industrial AI 101
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Using AI in Manufacturing to Eliminate Late Production Orders – Case study of OTD Improvement in Hi-Mix/Lo-Volume Production Environment

Mark Lilly
Presdient & CEO
Lillyworks
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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Navigating the Latest in SCADA Standards, Protocols, and Regulations with a Deep Dive into ISA-101

Speaker Coming Soon
AIMST Conference
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Keynote
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Beyond Pilots: CIO Lessons from Real-World AI Deployments

Daphne Rackley
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Atlanta Department of Watershed Management, Office of Information Management
Scott Christensen
Cyber Practice Director
GrayMatter
Nicole Coughlin
Chief Information & AI Officer
Town of Cary
Steve Russell
CEO
Upstart 13
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Industrial AI 101
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AI on a Budget: High-ROI Use Cases SMEs Can Deploy Today

Alex Gruebele
President
Tau9 Labs
Jaime Camelio
Executive Director, Georgia Network for Electric Mobility
University of Georgia College of Engineering
Scott Duncan
Lead AI & Decarbonization Engineer
Solstice Advanced Materials
Vijay Gurav
Senior Industrial Engineer
Boston Whaler
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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Modern SCADA for Utilities: Interoperability, Edge Intelligence, and Cybersecurity

Warren Shepard
CEO
Control Seat
Roger Quesnel
Chief Operating Officer
SkyFoundry
Dawn Bali
Senior Cyber Defense Threat Intelligence Analyst
Constellation Energy
Brad Nash
OTCRM SOC Supervisor
ExxonMobil
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Table Talk
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Funding the Factory of the Future: R&D Credits and Tariff Recovery for Manufacturers

Ryan Foote
Sagemont Advisors
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Table Talk
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Why the Knowledge Layer Is the Next Frontier for AI-Driven Business Automation

Vino Kingston
AI Transformation Strategy, Advanced Solutions
Lockheed Martin
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Table Talk
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From AI Pilots to Operational Impact: Building Trusted AI for Manufacturing

Sommy Boucansaud
Strategic Technology Leader, Manufacturing
ChapsVision
Jeff Everham
Head of Innovation
ChapsVision
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Table Talk
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Industrial AI in Practice: Separating Fact from Fluff

Cami Naranjo
Chief Revenue Officer
Software Toolbox
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Industrial AI 101
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Enhancing Manufacturing, from Process Engineering to Commercialization at Lubrizol

Justin Robinson
VP of Industrial Automation Services
GrayMatter
Dan Floyd
Vice President, Manufacturing Technology
The Lubrizol Corporation
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AI Manufacturing
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From onboarding to offboarding — what happens when your workforce isn't human?

Ricardo Estok
Former Global Operations Transformation leader at Johnson Controls and Goodyear
Way2Protect
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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ISA-112 Part 1: Building the Foundation for Modern SCADA Systems

Alex Boesenberg
Program Manager for Standards Advocacy
International Society of Automation
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Networking Break
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Networking Break

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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Twenty Years of Centralized Remedial Action at Southern California Edison: Architecture, Operational Lessons, and the Emerging Grid Control Platform

Joel Greene
Vice President
SISCO
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AI Manufacturing
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Insights on the State of Industrial AI

Ganesh Kalipershad
Head of Enterprise Solutions
Software Toolbox
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Keynote
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Transforming Atlanta’s Water with Modern Technology

Greg Eyerly
Commissioner
City of Atlanta, Department of Watershed Management
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Happy Hour Reception

Happy Hour Reception Sponsored By:
Viaduct AI
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AI Manufacturing
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Operational AI For Mission Critical Work: The Trusted Foundation to Move Beyond the Pilot

Jeff Everham
Head of Innovation
ChapsVision
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Industrial AI 101
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Upskilling the Workforce with Digital & AI Literacy

Eugene Park
Data Science
Cerrowire
Alicia Kimiagarov
Senior Manager, Data & Analytics
Cerrowire
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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Xeto and the Next Industrial Stack: Why AI in SCADA Will Rise or Fall on Data Meaning

Roger Quesnel
Chief Operating Officer
SkyFoundry
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Keynote
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From Pilot Purgatory to the AI Highway: Why the Roman Roads & Google Maps Foreshadow the Future of Industrial Intelligence

Jonathan Alexander
Global Manufacturing AI & Advanced Analytics Manager
Albemarle Corporation
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
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From Fragmented to Integrated: The OT Journey to WIMS

Jonathan Pitney
Director of SCADA and Controls
EPCOR USA
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
Panel

Digital Twins for Control Optimization: SCADA-Driven Simulation, Prediction & Response

Jim Redman
President & Founder
Ergo Tech
Aaron Blinka
Principal Software Engineer and Product Security Leader
HMH
Brad Nash
OTCRM SOC Supervisor
ExxonMobil
John Salako
SCADA Engineer
Enbridge
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Keynote
Panel

From Pilot to Platform: Scaling Industrial AI Across the Enterprise

Lauren Dunford
CEO and Co-Founder
Guidewheel
Scott Duncan
Lead AI & Decarbonization Engineer
Solstice Advanced Materials
Ricardo Estok
Former Global Operations Transformation leader at Johnson Controls and Goodyear
Way2Protect
Shashank Kadetotad
Global Senior Director, Enterprise Data Science and AI
Mars
Rafael Garcia
Cybersecurity Principal
El Paso Electric
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AI Manufacturing
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AI-Enabled Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence in Industrial Operations

Fred Heller
Vice President Data & AI
Xorbix Technologies
Vino Kingston
AI Transformation Strategy, Advanced Solutions
Lockheed Martin
Luke O'Brien
Sales Director
Viaduct
Vilas Shelke
Director Business Excellence
Jubilant Draximage Radiopharmacies
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Table Talk
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Safeguarding Industrial Operations from Cyber-Physical Threats

Alex Boesenberg
Program Manager for Standards Advocacy
International Society of Automation
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DEMO
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DEMO: From Zero to AI without Replatforming

Anselm Bossacoma
Chief Strategy Officer
SEIDOR US
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Table Talk
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The Response Gap: Finding the Minutes Between a Detected Problem and a Completed Fix

Nikhil Arora
Director of Business Development
Relay
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Workshop
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Human Judgment in the Age of Industrial AI: Leading Safely in Manufacturing, SCADA, and OT Environments

Eric Bannavti Suiseka
Global AI & Digital Literacy, Author
Bannav S Bannav
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Industrial AI 101
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Driving Continuous Improvement Through Data-Driven Operational Excellence

Rajan Chaudhary
Senior Process Engineer
PPG
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Keynote
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The Conversion Layer: Why Automation ROI Lives or Dies on Human Response

Nikhil Arora
Director of Business Development
Relay
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Welcome Reception

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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AI Manufacturing
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Accelerating AI-Enabled Robotics for Manufacturing: Bridging R&D and Commercialization

Matthew Powelson
Senior Robotics Software Engineer
ARM Institute
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Industrial AI 101
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Customer-Side Playbook for Deploying AI in Manufacturing

Adam Marsh
President
Ledge Inc
Ameet Sonalkar
CTO
The Anstadt Company
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Networking Break
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Executives Breakfast Reception

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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Networking Break
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Executives Lunch Reception

Aunt Bette's Homemade Pecan Pie
Rockin’ Rocky Road Ice Cream
Tom’s Heavenly Apple Strudel
Joe’s Divine Butter Tarts
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Keynote
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Map It Before You Build It: Why We Spent Six Months on a Digital Value Stream Map Before Writing a Line of Code

Steve Russell
CEO
Upstart 13
Cody Risner
Vice President of Continuous Improvement
Alphia
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Workshop
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You Think It’s Controlled: Identifying and Fixing Hidden Risk in AI Driven Operations

Adeel Shaikh Muhammad
Founder
Adeel Solutions
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Keynote
Panel

Designing the Industrial Data Stack: OT, IT, and AI Convergence in Practice

Danny Smith
Principal, AI Strategic Advisory, Auto & Manufacturing
Amazon Web Services
John Patanian
Senior Manager, Manufacturing Digital Innovation
IDEXX
Francisco Javier Franco Espinoza
Strategy and Innovation Manager, Factory Automation
Siemens
Joshua Wiggins
Senior Solutions Architect
The Boeing Company
Jeffrey Schroeder
Director of Product Management
HighByte
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AI Manufacturing
Panel

AI-Driven Supply Chain Optimization: From Factory Floor to Global Network

Prashant Gopalan
Director, Enterprise Modernization, AI & Business Platforms
Carpenter Technology Corporation
Sadan Kulturel‐Konak
Professor
Penn State Berks
Mohamed Taha Elkiaei
Supply Network Operations and Logistics Director
Procter & Gamble
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Industrial AI 101
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Applications of AI on the Production Shop Floor

Vijay Gurav
Senior Industrial Engineer
Boston Whaler
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SCADA Tech & AI Utilities
Panel

Smarter SCADA: AI-Enhanced Control, Monitoring, and Predictive Operations for the Next Generation of Industrial Systems

Rahul Bali
Founder & CEO
Arcwise
Joel Greene
Vice President
SISCO
Alicia Kimiagarov
Senior Manager, Data & Analytics
Cerrowire
John Salako
SCADA Engineer
Enbridge
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Industrial AI 101
Panel

Modernizing Legacy OT & IT: Strategies for Upgrading Industrial Infrastructure Without Disruption

Jason Moss
Founder and CEO
Georgia Manufacturing Alliance
Dawn Bali
Senior Cyber Defense Threat Intelligence Analyst
Constellation Energy
Jonathan Pitney
Director of SCADA and Controls
EPCOR USA
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